INCOME INEQUALITY

Global Income Coin Raises Funding to Develop Universal Basic Income Through Crypto
Original press release can be seen here. Global Income Coin, a crypto non-profit company, secured $2 million to launch a new

Should the Basic Income Grant become a permanent line item on the national budget in South Africa?
In 2020, the South African government introduced a Social Distress Relief (SDR) Grant of R350 to provide much-needed support

How Basic Income Prevents Violence
BY LEA HOEFER, ERIC REINHART, AND TANYA L. ZAKRISON Original Post: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/how-cash-transfer-programs-prevent-violent-crime.html Every night in Chicago, trauma surgeons face a scenario that

Opinion: How Guaranteed Basic Income Can Spur Black Entrepreneurship
At its core, a guaranteed income is about more than giving people money: it’s about resetting the terms of

Pope calls for universal basic income, shorter working day
In a video message to the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Saturday, Pope Francis called for a

The powerful message behind ‘Maid’
Opinion by Amy K. Matsui The new Netflix series “Maid” — largely based on the bestselling memoir of the

Illinois LGBTQ leader calls for a citizen dividend of $570 a year to combat income inequality
By Nara Schoenberg When Brian Johnson first started noticing articles about income inequality in 2016, he had his doubts. The

Rita Gau: My Journey with Money, Supporting Myself, and Worthiness
By Rita Gau Is it too much to expect to be able to meet your basic needs and have

Survey Shows People No Longer Believe Working Hard Will Lead To A Better Life
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global

Racial employment divide continues in recovering US economy
Americans who lost their jobs to the Covd-19 pandemic are returning to work, but Black and Hispanic workers continue

South Africa: Food Riots Show the Need for a Basic Income
As rioters target supermarkets, activists call on the government to help those who cannot survive amid rising prices and

Piketty: Basic income, a job guarantee, and inheritance for all must all be implemented
Covid has given the world a moment to re-evaluate our relationship to work, life and social justice. How can

A campaign for basic income has been launched by multiple unions in Turkey
“Social assistance provided as charity rather than rights do not prevent poverty but perpetuate it,” 92 groups have said

The Other Epidemic: Deaths of Despair
Anne Case and Angus Deaton provide a compelling account of the problem, but anemic solutions. The epidemic of deaths

What happens when all the rent comes due?
“An eviction is not a single event in a person’s life. It actually changes the trajectory of a life,

Opinion: We need to shift from a culture of fear to a culture of care to fight the politics of hatred
The human “fight or flight” response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace

Opinion: The problem is poverty, however we label it
The prefixes ‘food’, ‘child’ or ‘fuel’ make life for 14 million poor Britons seem easily fixable. In truth, radical

Why work more than 15 hours a week?
Unthinkable: It was good enough for your ancestors, says anthropologist James Suzman By: Joe Humphreys Anyone feeling lockdown guilt –

How did Americans spend their economic impact payments?
The stimulus checks went to help people pay down debt and prepare for an uncertain financial future. The impact

In just three months, 6 million more Americans have fallen into poverty
The rise in poverty was triggered by a lack of new stimulus checks and the end of the $600

74% of households with children that made less than $100,000 report facing serious financial problems
Juggling Financial Stress And Caregiving, Parents Are ‘Very Not OK’ In The Pandemic By: RHITU CHATTERJEE. — Back in

Economic Fallout From COVID-19 Continues To Hit Lower-Income Americans the Hardest
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed By: KIM PARKER, RACHEL

Opinion: It’s time the entire continent of Africa rolled out universal basic income
By: Stella Wamae. — ______________________________________________ Key stats: Africa, with a median age of 19.5, accounts for 16.72 per cent of

New study reveals that $2.5 trillion is being upwardly redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%
The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every

The US is experiencing a “K-shaped” economic recovery. Here’s what that means.
What does a “K-shaped” recovery look like, and what it means for everyday Americans By: MATTHEW ROZSA. — During

GoodDollar Begins Delivering Universal Basic Income Globally via Blockchain
By: Lawrence Wintermeyer. — With enforced shutdowns driving governments to enact emergency stimulus measures and airdrop funds into citizens’

Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades — especially for Black and Latino workers.
The urban job escalator has stopped moving Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades —

The dignity in UBI is in being unconditionally there for each other
By: David Brancaccio and Daniel Shin Millions of eligible Americans received an emergency aid payment of $1,200 earlier this year when

Money and happiness are more strongly related now than in the past, and represents another argument for UBI
Money buys even more happiness than it used to Jean Twenge Many factors determine happiness, but one has stirred considerable

The stimulus checks were mostly used for basic everyday expenses
Stimulus Checks Just Enough To Plug A Few Financial Holes Right Now by Christian Weller The federal government sent

Universal basic income could improve the nation’s mental health
Many people are talking about universal basic income (UBI) these days. Giving everyone a guaranteed income could be the solution to many economic

Do markets require redistribution to avoid market failure due to excessive inequality?
Wealth inequality is escalating at an alarming rate not only within the U.S. but also in countries as diverse